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The asteroid Bennu is providing scientists with critical insights into the early solar system and the origins of life. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission successfully returned pristine samples to Earth, enabling unprecedented analysis. Recent studies published in Nature Geosciences and Nature Astronomy highlight three groundbreaking discoveries. Researchers identified sugars essential for life, including ribose and glucose, which…

BENGALURU: Biomoneta has become the first Indian healthtech company to receive US-FDA 510(k) Class II clearance for a medical air-cleaning device, marking a key milestone in its efforts to expand into the US healthcare market.“The clearance covers the Biomoneta Avata Rx Medical Recirculating Air Cleaner, which is built on the company’s patented ZeBox technology. Unlike…

Source: NASA Earth Observatory In the remote reaches of southeastern Libya, the Sahara Desert holds formations that are both enigmatic and visually captivating. Among the most striking are the concentric rings of Jabal Arkanū, rising sharply from the otherwise flat desert plains. Their circular ridges, spanning kilometres across the landscape, have long intrigued explorers and…

Scientist proposes consciousness is universal, not biological and death may not end it/ representational image If you ask a neuroscientist what happens to your mind when you die, the usual answer is blunt: your brain shuts down, and with it your thoughts, memories and sense of self. Consciousness, in that view, is something the brain…

Imagine watching the Moon from Earth and knowing that your name is physically travelling around it on a real spacecraft. A tiny piece of your identity traveling through deep space, circling our closest celestial neighbour, and returning home after a historic journey. NASA has opened this extraordinary opportunity for people worldwide through the upcoming Artemis…

The first day of December 2025 has brought a striking surge in solar activity, prompting renewed scientific attention to the relationship between the Sun’s magnetic behaviour and the technological systems that depend on stable conditions in near-Earth space. An unexpected X2-class flare erupted during the early hours of the morning, offering a reminder of how…

Life often finds surprising ways to adapt, even in places where survival seems impossible. Inside the abandoned ruins of Chernobyl’s destroyed nuclear reactor, scientists discovered a strange black fungus that not only survives extreme radiation but appears to grow toward it and possibly use it for energy. Scientists working with NASA’s space biology teams and…

Source: Scientific American The European Space Agency is moving ahead with one of its most ambitious missions yet. It is planning a dedicated journey to Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus, a world believed to hold a vast ocean beneath its frozen crust. This mission, set for launch in the 2040s, will use both an orbiter and…

The Afar region in northeastern Africa represents one of the few locations on Earth where a new ocean may be forming over the next several million years. Situated at a unique triple junction where the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, and East African Rift converge, Afar offers scientists a rare opportunity to observe the processes…

Many men only notice the scrotal raphe by chance, often mistaking it for a scar or a surgical line/ Representational AI Image Plenty of men only notice it by accident, often during a long shower or a curious moment later in life, a pale, raised, seam-like line running down the middle of the scrotum that…

When scientists want to understand how the human brain really works, they often turn to carefully controlled experiments. But a growing group of researchers, including neuroscientists at Princeton University who pioneered the use of films in brain-scanning studies, is taking a far more surprising approach. Instead of flashing simple shapes or static images, they are…

India has secured seven new references on the Martian geological map, marking a meaningful milestone in the nation’s scientific journey. Several prominent Kerala landmarks, including its largest river, a major fort, a popular beach, and two towns linked with India’s space history, now lend their names to craters, plains, and valleys on Mars. Although these…

When the Sun slips below the horizon and night begins, something unexpected appears high above our planet. Space scientists have discovered a strange and faint form of natural radiation that emerges only after sunset, pulses through the upper atmosphere for several hours and then fades away again shortly after sunrise. Invisible from the ground and…

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has recently drawn significant global attention, sparking both fascination and debate among scientists and the general public. As it travels through our Solar System, a key question has emerged: is this observation purely scientific, or is it part of a formal, coordinated planetary-defence exercise? Despite involvement from international organisations, confusion has…

The Moon has always held a certain mystery, from influencing tides to inspiring mythology, poetry and scientific inquiry. For decades, astronomers have attempted to answer the same fundamental question: where did the Moon come from? A widely accepted theory has long suggested that the Moon formed after an enormous collision between early Earth and a…

Human missions to Mars are becoming a more serious possibility, and the question of how people will cope with life so far from Earth has never felt more pressing. When four volunteers stepped into NASA’s 3D printed Mars habitat in October 2025, they began a full year inside a space designed to mirror the challenges…

For decades, scientists believed they understood how material moves deep inside the Earth. The basic theory seemed simple enough. Tectonic plates slowly shift across the planet, some slide beneath others, and the remains of these plates sink into the mantle and eventually disappear. Yet new research has revealed something unexpected far below the Pacific Ocean….

The discovery of an active underwater volcano off Canada’s Pacific coastline has revealed an unexpectedly vibrant deep-sea habitat centred around the life cycle of the Pacific white skate. Long believed to be dormant, the seamount was found to be warm, chemically rich, and covered in hundreds of thousands of large skate eggs. This finding provides…

For generations, Saturn has been the unmistakable jewel of the night sky. Anyone with even a small telescope could identify it instantly because of its bright, majestic ring system. Yet on the night of 23 November, observers around the world were confronted with a baffling and unsettling sight. Saturn appeared strangely naked. The wide, gleaming…

NASA has revealed the discovery of a mysterious red celestial object speeding through the Milky Way at an extraordinary velocity. Named CWISE J1249, this enigmatic sphere is challenging astronomers’ understanding of stars and planets. It behaves like a rogue planet, resembles a failed star, moves faster than almost any object ever recorded, and possesses physical…